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Chronopolitics in the Cinematic Representations of "Comfort Women" (일본군 '위안부'의 영화적 기억과 크로노폴리틱스)

  • Park, Hyun-Seon
    • Journal of Popular Narrative
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.175-209
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    • 2020
  • This paper examines how the cinematic representation of the Japanese military "comfort women" stimulates 'imagination' in the realm of everyday life and in the memory of the masses, creating a common awareness and affect. The history of the Japanese military "comfort women" was hidden for a long time, and it was not until the 1990s that it entered the field of public recognition. Such a transition can be attributed to the external and internal chronopolitics that made possible the testimony of the victims and the discourse of the "comfort women" issue. It shows the peculiar status of the comfort women history as 'politics of time'. In the same vein, the cinematic representations of the Japanese military "comfort women" can be found in similar chronopolitics. The 'comfort women' films have shown the dual time frame of the continuity and discontinuity of the 'silence'. In Korean film history, the chronotope of the reproduction of "comfort women" can be divided into four phases: 1) the fictional representations of "comfort women" before the 1990s 2) documentaries in the late 1990s as the work of testimony and history writing, 3) melodramatic transformation in the feature films in the 2000s, and 4) the diffusion of media and categories. The purpose of this article is to focus on the first phase and the third phase in which the issue of 'comfort women' is represented in the category of popular fiction films. While the "comfort women" representations before 1990 were strictly adhering to the framework of commercial movies and pursued the sexual exploitation of "comfort women" history, the recent films since the 2000s are experimenting with various attempts in the style of popular imagination. Especially, the emergence of 'comfort women' feature films in the 2000s, such as Spirit's Homecoming, I Can Speak, and Herstory, raise various questions as to whether we are "properly" aware of issues and how to remember and present the "cultural memory" of comfort women. Also, focusing on the cinematic representation strategies of the 2000s "comfort women", this article discusses the popular politics of melodrama, the representation of victims and violence, and the feature of 'comfort women' as meta-memory. As a melodramatic imagination and meta-memory for the historical trauma, the "comfort women" drama shows the historical, political, and aesthetic gateways to which the "comfort women" problem must pass. As we have seen in recent fiction films, the issue of "comfort women" goes beyond transnational relations between Korea and Japan; it demands a postcolonial task to dismantle the old colonial structure and explores a transnational project in which women's movements and human rights movements are linked internationally.

Depression and Husband's Support in Married Women (기혼여성의 우울과 배우자 지지)

  • Lee, Inn-Sook
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.482-493
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    • 2002
  • This study was conducted to explore depression, husband's support, the differences of these variables according to general characteristics, and the correlation of these variables in married women. The data was collected from May 2000 till July 2000 by using a questionnaire. The subjects were 419 married women in the area of Seoul and Kyunggi-Do. The data was analized using the SPSS program The results were as follows : 1. The mean score and standard deviation of depression was $13.97{\pm}8.49$ with the range scoring from 0 to 52. The mean score and standard deviation of the husband's support was $17.83{\pm}8.63$ with the range scoring the from 0 to 36. 2. The variables influencing depression were the woman's education level, the husband's education level, home income, marrital satisfaction, menstruation status, and sex related problems. The variables influencing husband's support were the woman's age, the husband's age, the women's education level, the husband's education level, the husband's religion, the husband's job, the home income, marrital period, marrital satisfaction, menstruation status, and sex related problems. 3. There was a moderative negative correlation between anxiety and the husband's support. In conclusion, community health nurses must plan and implement programs improving the husband's support in order to decrease depression in married women.

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Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery Using Hamstring Autograft (슬괵건을 이용한 전방 십자 인대 재 재건술)

  • In Yong;Bahk Won-Jong;Kwon Oh-Soo;Suh Young-Wan;Im Dong-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Arthroscopy Society
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2003
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the results of revision surgery for failed anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction using quadruple hamstring tendon autograft. Materials and Methods : From May 2000 to July 2002, six patients received ACL revision surgery using quadruple hamstring autograft for failed ACL reconstruction. Femoral tunnels were made 40 mm in depth and fixed with a cross pin and a bioabsorbable interference screw to fill the bone defect. In tibial tunnels, the grafts were fixed with Intrafix(Mitek, Norwood, MA). In case of tibial tunnel widening, additional screw-washer fixation was done. Follow up was at least 12 months postoperatively. Clinical assessments consisted of Lysholm knee scores, International Knee Documentation Committee(IKDC) evaluation form and manual maximal side to side difference using KT-2000 arthrometer. Results : The average Lysholm knee score improved from 77.2 preoperatively to 87.7 postoperatively. At the final IKDC evaluation, 1 case was graded as normal, 4 nearly normal, 1 abnormal. Mean side to side difference of manual maximum anterior displacement using the KT-2000 arthrometer was 1.8mm. The success rate was $83\%$. Conclusion : ACL revision surgery using quadruple hamstring autograft with double fixation is considered good procedure with successful results.

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A Comparative Study of the DFT and MP2 Methods Molecular Structure of Diphosphadithiatetrazocine

  • Jeong, Gyu Seong;Lee, Deok Hwan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.300-304
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    • 2000
  • The B3LYP method based on the density functional theory(DFT) is shown to be much better than the ab initio MP2 method for structural determination of diphosphadithiatetrazocine systems having transannular S--S bonding. The presence of bonding between the two sulfur atoms across the cyclic ring is theoretically confirmed in the case of the neutral diphosphadithiatetrazocine. The S--S dobding disappears in the ionized species. The planarity of the dicationic heterocyclic ring system turns out to be closely associated with the $\pi-electron$ delocalization over the entire ring as well as the N-S-N bonds, which become stiffened upon ionizaiton. In the case of dianionic species, the chair-boat and chair conformers are nearly degenerate and far more stable than the crown conformer.